Corporate Accountability and Trust - Thoughts from 12 top managers

This book is a collection of accounts from 12 top managers who share with us their views on corporate responsibility. These individuals also explain how the emergence of this concept on the economic scene has changed - or hasn't.

With a preface by Alain Etchegoyen, this work compares the thoughts of top managers from various different cultures and backgrounds:

  • César Alierta, CEO of Telefonica,
  • Alessandro Benetton,
  • Martin Bouygues,
  • Patrick de Cambourg, President of the Mazars Group,
  • Henri de Castries, CEO of AXA,
  • Adi Godrej, CEO of the Godrej Group,
  • Stephen Green, CEO of the HSBC Group,
  • Daniel Janssen, Solway Group,
  • Martin Roman, CEO of CEZ,
  • Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone,
  • Ernest-Antoine Seillière, Wendel Investissement,
  • Werner Wenning, Bayer AG, and
  • Yuanqing Yang, Lenovo.

In this book, Mazars also discusses the future of corporate responsibility: Nicole Notat (president of Vigeo corporate social responsibility rating), Pierre Tapie, (managing director of the ESSEC Group) and Professor Gilbert Lenssen, (President of EABIS, the European Academy for Business in Society) talk of the long-lasting appeal of this notion and the part it will play in the future thanks to the training currently being given to the managers of tomorrow.

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